B.B.B. Ointment
B.B.B. Ointment
- Description
- The indications or uses for this product as provided on its packaging: For treatment of eczema, pimples, ringworm, tetter, posion ivy, itch and similar skin afflictions
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- otc preparation
- date made
- after 1920
- retailer
- Tupper's Pharmacy
- maker
- Blood Balm Company
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
- Physical Description
- cardboard (packaging material)
- metal (container material)
- Measurements
- box: 3 in x 3 in x 1 in; 7.62 cm x 7.62 cm x 2.54 cm
- tin: 7/8 in x 2 3/4 in; 2.2225 cm x 6.985 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0698.019
- accession number
- 1980.0698
- catalog number
- 1980.0698.019
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mary E. and Joseph F. Melfi, Jr., Tupper's Drug Store, Summerville, South Carolina
- subject
- Skin & Dermatology Drugs
- Rubs, Liniments & Ointments
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Beauty and Hygiene Products: Cure-alls
- Health & Medicine
- Balm of America
- Beauty and Health
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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